Endoneurial sodium accumulation in galactosemic rat nerves.

abstract：:To determine if short TI (time to inversion) recovery (STIR) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is useful in assessing lower extremity (LE) denervation in subacute lumbar radiculopathy (LR), 25 subjects underwent lumbar spine MRI, LE STIR MRI and needle electromyography (EMG). In 23 (92%) subjects there was a positive c...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Carter GT,Fritz RC

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in the reorganization of health-care settings affecting clinical care delivery to patients with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DBMD) as well as other inherited muscular dystrophies. The magnitude of the impact of this public health emergency on the...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Veerapandiyan A,Wagner KR,Apkon S,McDonald CM,Mathews KD,Parsons JA,Wong BL,Eichinger K,Shieh PB,Butterfield RJ,Rao VK,Smith EC,Proud CM,Connolly AM,Ciafaloni E

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small-fiber neuropathy is a common disorder. It is often "idiopathic" and typically presents with painful feet in patients over the age of 60. Autoimmune mechanisms are often suspected, but rarely identified. Known causes of small-fiber neuropathy include diabetes mellitus, amyloidosis, toxins, and inherited sensory a...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Lacomis D

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:X-linked myotubular myopathy (XLMTM), characterized by severe hypotonia, weakness, respiratory distress, and early mortality, is rare and natural history studies are few. METHODS:RECENSUS is a multicenter chart review of male XLMTM patients characterizing disease burden and unmet medical needs. Data were ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Beggs AH,Byrne BJ,De Chastonay S,Haselkorn T,Hughes I,James ES,Kuntz NL,Simon J,Swanson LC,Yang ML,Yu ZF,Yum SW,Prasad S

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral neuropathies are reported to arise as a result of the systemic inflammatory response produced by a full-thickness cutaneous burn injury. This study was designed to characterize the magnitude and time course of functional and morphological changes in peripheral axons that arise after a full-thickness dermal ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Higashimori H,Whetzel TP,Mahmood T,Carlsen RC

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrical characteristics of myotonia in skeletal muscle appear remarkably similar in a variety of natural disorders and animal models. Recent experimental work has made it clear, however, that the pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying these myotonic discharges can be quite different. A mechanistic classificatio...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Barchi RL

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A treatment has been developed to alleviate muscle weakness in murine dystrophy. Cultured myoblasts from genetically normal mouse embryos were injected into the right soleus of 20-day-old normal or dystrophic mice. Hosts and donors were immunocompatible but exhibited different genotype markers. Donor cells produced GP...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Law PK,Goodwin TG,Wang MG

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the influence of electrical stimulation of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) on the motoneuron pool of the thigh muscle during voluntary static and dynamic muscle contraction. The study group comprised nine young men with no history of injury to the knee joints. Multistranded Teflon-insulated stain...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Fischer-Rasmussen T,Krogsgaard M,Jensen DB,Dyhre-Poulsen P

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since peripheral nerve has a large ischemic safety factor, hypothermia, by reducing metabolic demands, is potentially an efficacious technique to rescue nerve from ischemic fiber degeneration (IFD). We therefore evaluated the influence of temperature on the severity of IFD resulting from a standard ischemic stress. Is...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Kihara M,Schmelzer JD,Kihara Y,Smithson IL,Low PA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the previously demonstrated heterogeneity of myosin heavy chain (MHC) in type 2B fibers of the superficial portion of the lateral gastrocnemius (SLG) muscle of the rat may be due to presence of type 2D/X fibers. Immunohistochemical identification of MHC heterogeneit...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Sawchak JA,Leung B,Shafiq SA

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report electrophysiological findings of conduction along peripheral sensory fibers in 64 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Distribution of the values of action potential amplitudes and conduction velocities of peripheral afferent fibers were significantly lower than in normal age-matched controls. Sensor...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Mondelli M,Rossi A,Passero S,Guazzi GC

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aim of this study was to describe the therapeutic effects of immunomodulatory therapy in 3 patients with childhood autoimmune necrotizing myopathy with anti-signal recognition particle antibodies (SRP-ANM). METHODS:Before treatment, data on clinical features, muscle pathology, and thigh MRIs were obta...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Zhao Y,Liu X,Zhang W,Yuan Y

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate possible influences of suprasegmental lesions on the masseter reflex. The masseter reflex was elicited in 54 patients with supratentorial (37 patients) or cerebellar (17 patients) lesions 3-11 days after the acute onset of clinical disease. Patients showing lesions within the p...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Hopf HC,Hinrichs C,Stoeter P,Urban PP,Marx J,Thömke F

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has an effect on isometric muscle force elicited by maximal voluntary contractions (MVC) and the ability to activate a muscle voluntarily (VA, as a percentage of full muscle activation), a twitch-interpolation technique was applied on the quadriceps femori...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Urbach D,Awiszus F

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the clinical utility of trigemino-facial reflexes in lower facial muscles, we studied perioral reflexes to mechanical and electrical stimulation in 13 patients with spasmodic dysphonia and orofacial dyskinesia and in 7 healthy subjects. Mechanical stimulation of the upper lip of all patients and ele...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Topka H,Hallett M

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Conduction block (CB) has been included in the Rajabally criteria for axonal Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). Because the nerve roots may be affected early in GBS, detection of proximal CB by the triple stimulation technique (TST) can be useful. METHODS:We describe TST findings in 2 patients who presented w...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Taieb G,Grapperon AM,Duclos Y,Franques J,Labauge P,Renard D,Yuki N,Attarian S

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Task-dependent differences in the facilitation of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) following cortex stimulation were studied in a proximal (deltoid) and a distal muscle (abductor digiti minimi; ADM) in 23 healthy subjects during both dynamic and steady contractions of the target muscle under isometric and under nonisome...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Arányi Z,Mathis J,Hess CW,Rösler KM

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The 6-minute walk test (6MWT) is a well-established clinical assessment of functional endurance, validated as a measure of walking ability in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The current availability of disease-modifying therapies for SMA indicates a growing need for normative reference data to compare SMA p...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Goodwin AM,Cornett KMD,McKay MJ,Burns J,Garber CE,De Vivo DC,Montes J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to investigate differences in contractile speed, force, and fatigability of the adductor pollicis muscle between 12 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 8 sedentary control subjects matched for age and gender. There were no differences between the patients with MS and control subjects...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： de Ruiter CJ,Jongen PJ,van der Woude LH,de Haan A

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the sarcoglycan (SG) genes cause a subset of limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD). We report a Spanish patient with progressive LGMD exhibiting an almost isolated loss of gamma-SG and a homozygous Delta521-T mutation in the gamma-SG gene. These results suggest that isolated loss of gamma-SG might remai...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Vorgerd M,Gencik M,Mortier J,Epplen JT,Malin JP,Mortier W

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Muscle fatigue could have a greater impact on position sense when antagonists of the movement are fatigued. Hence, this study aimed to compare the effects of antagonist and agonist exercise-induced muscle fatigue on knee joint position sense. METHODS:This within-subjects repeated-measures study included 4...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Ribeiro F,Venâncio J,Quintas P,Oliveira J

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Factors determining response to intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) and plasmapheresis in myasthenia gravis (MG) have not been evaluated systematically. METHODS:This study included patients treated with IVIg (n = 63) or plasmapheresis (n = 42) from two trials evaluating IVIg vs. placebo or plasmapheresis in...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Katzberg HD,Barnett C,Bril V

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Denervation induces muscle fiber atrophy and changes in the gene expression rates of skeletal muscle. Electrical stimulation (ES) is a procedure generally used to treat denervated muscles in humans. This study evaluated the effect of ES based on chronaxie and rheobase on the expression of the myoD and atrogin-1 genes ...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Russo TL,Peviani SM,Freria CM,Gigo-Benato D,Geuna S,Salvini TF

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The model of chronic low-frequency stimulation for the study of muscle plasticity was developed over 30 years ago. This protocol leads to a transformation of fast, fatigable muscles toward slower, fatigue-resistant ones. It involves qualitative and quantitative changes of all elements of the muscle fiber studied so fa...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Pette D,Vrbová G

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Bifacial weakness with paresthesias is a rare subtype of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), characterized by facial diplegia in the absence of any other cranial neuropathies, limb weakness, or ataxia. Frequently, patients also complain of distal limb paresthesias before or at the time they develop facial weakn...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Morgan C,Fuller G,Wakerley BR

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinicians who use electromyographic (EMG) signals to help determine the presence or absence of abnormality in a muscle often, with varying degrees of success, evaluate sets of motor unit potentials (MUPs) qualitatively and/or quantitatively to characterize the muscle in a clinically meaningful way. The resulting musc...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Pino LJ,Stashuk DW,Boe SG,Doherty TJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have devised a method of sensory nerve conduction in the interdigital nerves of the foot using the near-nerve needle and signal averaging techniques. In 40 normal controls between the ages of 20 and 59, there was no difficulty in recording sensory compound nerve action potential (CNAP) in the various interdigital n...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Oh SJ,Kim HS,Ahmad BK

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weakness is common in both hyper- and hypothyroidism, and skeletal muscle L-carnitine may play a role in this regard, as suggested by studies indicating abnormal levels of carnitine in serum and urine of patients with thyroid dysfunction. Skeletal muscle samples were obtained for carnitine analysis from control subjec...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Sinclair C,Gilchrist JM,Hennessey JV,Kandula M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Pes cavus often signals the presence of Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) in adult patients, although its prevalence in the general population makes it a finding of unclear significance. METHODS:We undertook a pilot double cohort study to investigate the feasibility of comparing preselected bedside and radiograph...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Stino AM,Atway S,Anthony M,Kline D,Kissel JT

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrodiagnostic evaluation of patients with suspected polyneuropathy is useful for detecting and documenting peripheral abnormalities, identifying the predominant pathophysiology, and determining the prognosis for certain disorders. The electrodiagnostic classification of polyneuropathy is associated with morphologi...

journal_title：Muscle & nerve

authors： Donofrio PD,Albers JW

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00